in ukraine by reading the news. many expressed exasperation at the threat of giuliani in the crosshairs of federal investigators continuing to cause headaches for the white house. joining our conversation chief public affairs officer from moveon.org and author of moving forward karine jean-pierre. here s the rudy question. i don t really care what he s doing there. but why does anyone think he s doing anything other than what the president wants him to do? we now have the phone records that show him talking to the white house. we ve had gordon sondland testify. everything i did was at the direction of the president and what the president told zelensky to do and what the president told all of the white house officials to do was to work with rudy. this isn t a rudy story. this is a trump story. this is not about his lawyer, his personal lawyer. this is about donald trump himself. who is still running a dirt campaign in ukraine fthrough rudy. you have to think that rudy must be walk
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day out. and he is bidding it. so even this story about him using unsecured cell phones. well, that s giving information to the enemy. and maybe that s even deliberate. that s happening every day. go ahead. but just doesn t see putin as the enemy the same way. if you want to understand why republicans are looking the other way, doesn t change public opinion, it s because this base of voters is enthralled in this cult of personality. they look at putin and they say what s so bad about him because he supports trump. supporting trump, in this case, is more important to these voters than whether or not he advances or threatens democratic values. i understand the politics of it. i have lived the ugly politics of the republican party. i regret some of those campaigns i was a part of. but i don t understand why republicans who know better, republicans with security clearances, who know how brutal putin is, who knows that he murders disdents and poisons. i don t know why richard burr
yeah. so it s remarkable to me that nobody is making that argument. i think pelosi has started on the democrat side, fortunately i think that s really between the lines of what she was saying yesterday, saying that this is about russia, and so she s trying to tie and tell the story more from a national security angle. but from the republican side all i hear is crickets. i guess, joyce, having done campaigns, if i wanted to do a campaign to expose the weakness of the republicans argument, it would be why are you for what putin wants? why are you for what putin wants to happen in this country that foreign governments can reach deep into our politics, deep into our social media platforms, deep into the oval office, have meetings that aren t recorded or put into the system with the american president? why would you continue to green-light this? this clearly is not the republican party when you worked in the white house, the republican party that i grew up with that was so incredibly